Word: shuttering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that turned out to be appropriate for the jungle war that en sued, she streaked through the airport, hid out in a washroom, was finally foiled only after ducking into a plane that turned out to be the wrong one. Ground ed and surrounded, Kate tried to nutter one shutter with a judo hold, lost her footing, ended up khaki slacks over tea kettle in a perfect pants-point landing...
...definite professional functions. Starting with a dilettantish 0-119 trying to catch a Discoverer capsule with a butterfly net, he proceeded to produce (in clockwise order): a Vanguard III with a nose, "because that satellite was sent up for micrometeorite and magnetic studies, sniffing out information in space"; a shutter-ready, lens-eyed Tiros, taking pictures of the earth's cloud cover; a svelte medicine man of an Explorer I, using "a thermometer and stethoscope, since it measures temperature and cosmic rays"; a buxom flapper of a Pioneer V, absorbing a last swift kick from its booster rocket...
...Monmouth, N.J., a 60-ft. dish antenna of the Army Signal Corps picked up the satellite's radio beacon as it came over the curve of the earth. Up from the ground went a coded signal that made the satellite's innards spring into frantic activity. A shutter opened and closed. Electronic pulses flashed through tangles of hair-thin wire...